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6III-Moral Obligation: Form and SubstanceProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (1pt1): 31-46. 2010.
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20Hurka, Thomas. British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 310. $49.95 (review)Ethics 127 (2): 496-502. 2017.
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30Eine Antwort auf Monika Betzier, Sebastian Rödl und Peter SchaberDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (1): 173-179. 2009.
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9Joseph Butler: Five Sermons (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 1983._CONTENTS:__ Introduction Selected Bibliography Five Sermons:_ The Preface_ Sermon I - Upon Human Nature Sermon II - Upon Human Nature Sermon III - Upon Human Nature Sermon IV - Upon The Love Of Our Neighbor Sermon V - Upon The Love Of Our Neighbor A dissertation upon the Nature of Virtue_
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6Review of Stephen L. Darwall: Equal Freedom: selected Tanner lectures on human values (review)Ethics 107 (2): 353-356. 1997.
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11Human Morality’s AuthorityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (4): 941-948. 1995.A central theme of Samuel Scheffler’s impressive Human Morality is that “a considered view of the relation between morality and the individual” requires distinguishing frequently confused issues concerning morality’s content, scope, authority, and deliberative role, and appreciating interrelations among these. He suggests a nice example of the latter. Some are inclined to believe morality lacks the overriding authority others claim it to have because they assume that morality’s content is string…Read more
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2Ethics and MoralityIn Tristram Colin McPherson & David Plunkett (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, Routledge. pp. 552-566. 2017.
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334Moral obligation: Form and substanceProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 110 (1pt1): 31-46. 2010.Beginning from an analysis of moral obligation's form that I defend in The Second-Person Standpoint as what we are answerable for as beings with the necessary capacities to enter into relations of mutual accountability, I argue that this analysis has implications for moral obligation's substance. Given what it is to take responsibility for oneself and hold oneself answerable, I argue, it follows that if there are any moral obligations at all, then there must exist a basic pro tanto obligation no…Read more
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417Empathy, sympathy, carePhilosophical Studies 89 (2-3). 1998.In what follows, I wish to discuss empathy and sympathy’s relevance to ethics, taking recent findings into account. In particular, I want to consider sympathy’s relation to the idea of a person’s good or well-being. It is obvious and uncontroversial that sympathetic concern for a person involves some concern for her good and some desire to promote it. What I want to suggest is that the concept of a person’s good or well-being is one we have because we are capable of care and sympathetic concern.…Read more
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28Motive and Obligation in the British Moralists*: STEPHEN L. DARWALLSocial Philosophy and Policy 7 (1): 133-150. 1989.My aim in what follows is to sketch with a broad brush fundamental changes involving the concept of obligation in British ethics of the early modern period, as it developed in the direction of the view that obligatory force is a species of motivational force – an idea that deeply informs present thought. I shall also suggest, although I can hardly demonstrate it conclusively here, that one important source for this view was a doctrine which we associate with Kant, and which it may seem surprisin…Read more
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26Reasons, motives, and the demands of morality: An introductionIn Stephen L. Darwall (ed.), Moral discourse and practice: some philosophical approaches, Oxford University Press. pp. 305--312. 1997.
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436Deontology (edited book)Blackwell. 2003.Deontology brings together some of the most significant philosophical work on ethics, presenting canonical essays on core questions in moral philosophy. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative theory.
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240Respect and the Second-Person StandpointProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 78 (2). 2004.
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30The Inference to the Best MeansCanadian Journal of Philosophy 6 (1). 1976.Some recent writers on practical reasoning have had it that reasoning about what to do differs in logical structure from theoretical reasoning. In particular, Anthony Kenny and G.E.M. Anscombe have argued that there are permissible inferences in practical reasoning which lack analogues in theoretical reasoning. Such discussions seem inevitably to draw their impetus from what Aristotle had to say on the topic, both in the Nicomachean Ethics and elsewhere.
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79Kant on respect, dignity, and the duty of respectIn Monika Betzler (ed.), Kant's Ethics of Virtues, De Gruyter. pp. 175-200. 2008.
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111Pufendorf on Morality, Sociability, and Moral PowersJournal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2): 213-238. 2012.Only in the last twenty-five years have scholars begun to appreciate Samuel Pufendorf’s importance for the history of ethics. The signal element of Pufendorf’s ethics for recent commentators is his idea that morality arises when God imposes his superior will on a world that can contain no moral value of or on its own. But how, exactly, is “imposition” accomplished? According to Pufendorf, human beings do not simply defer to God in the way elephant seals do to a dominant male. Rather, imposition …Read more
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27The Authority of ReasonPhilosophical Review 109 (4): 583. 2000.At the time of her death in 1996, Jean Hampton was working on a book on practical reason she had tentatively titled, A Theory of Reasons. The above volume consists of the materials she left, together with useful editorial clues to the state of their relative completeness. Computer file dates make it clear that Hampton was engaged in a significant revision of the text and had gotten as far as Chapter 3 of a nine-chapter book. Revisions of two-thirds of the text lay before her, and, as Richard Hea…Read more
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58How should ethics relate to (the rest of) philosophy? : Moore's legacySouthern Journal of Philosophy 41 (S1): 1-20. 2003.
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9Normativity and Projection in Hobbes’s LeviathanPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 313-347. 2000.A perennial problem in interpreting Hobbes’s moral and political thought in Leviathan has been to square the apparently irreducible normativity of central Hobbesian concepts and premises with his materialism and empiricism. Thus, Hobbes defines a “law of nature” as a “precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life” and the “right of nature” as “the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preser…Read more
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